H41M:
Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Environment I

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Session ID#: 34360

Session Description:
Land-atmosphere interactions are a key component of the Earth system. Atmospheric impacts on land as well as land cover perturbations alter land-atmosphere water and energy fluxes. Such changes have important impacts on weather and climate variability, and hydrometeorological extremes such as heatwaves and drought. However, traditional measurements only provide an incomplete picture of such relationships, resulting in poorly understood linkages of water and energy cycle components, thus limiting current modeling applications. This session invites presentations that address the physical processes (from bedrock to boundary layer) through which land-atmosphere coupling occurs in nature, how large scale field experiments and remote sensing can improve understanding of such processes, how processes are represented in numerical models, and how land-atmosphere interactions contribute to our understanding and prediction capabilities of terrestrial climate and water cycle over a range of spatial and temporal scales.
Primary Convener:  Rafael Rosolem, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Alexis M Berg, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States and Joseph A Santanello Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 617, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Alexis M Berg, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rafael Rosolem, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1840 Hydrometeorology [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A New Metric for Land-Atmosphere Coupling Strength: Applications on Observations and Modeling (216660)
Qi Tang1, Shaocheng Xie2, Yunyan Zhang1, Thomas J Phillips1, Joseph A Santanello Jr3, David J Cook4, Laura Riihimaki5 and Krista Gaustad5, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (3)Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Argonne, IL, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Attribution of surface temperature anomalies induced by land use and land cover changes (290821)
Angela Jean Rigden, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States and Dan Li, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Investigating Soil Moisture–Convective Precipitation Feedbacks Using In Situ Soil Moisture in the Central United States (236136)
Yuechun Wang1, Shanshui Yuan2, Steven M Quiring3, Trent Ford4, Adam L Houston5 and Lisa Goldstein3, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Geography and Environmental Resources, Carbondale, IL, United States, (5)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
First Results of the Land Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (259325)
Volker Wulfmeyer, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physics and Meteorology, Stuttgart, Germany, David D Turner, NOAA Boulder, Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and the LAFE team
Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Land-Atmosphere Coupling Across the Southern Great Plains of North America (254427)
Jeffrey B Basara, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States and Jordan I Christian, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States
Moistening of the northern North American Great Plains enhances land-atmosphere coupling (255496)
Tobias Gerken, Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, Gabriel T Bromley, Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science, Bozeman, MT, United States and Paul C Stoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Biological Systems Engineering, Madison, United States

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